Three Brothers (Chagos Archipelago)

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Three Brothers
Location of the Three Brothers on the western edge of the Great Chagos Bank in the Chagos Archipelago
Location of the Three Brothers on the western edge of the Great Chagos Bank in the Chagos Archipelago
Waters Indian Ocean
Geographical location 6 ° 9 ′  S , 71 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 6 ° 9 ′  S , 71 ° 31 ′  E
Three Brothers (Chagos Archipelago) (Chagos Archipelago)
Three Brothers (Chagos Archipelago)
Number of islands 4th
Main island South Brother
Total land area 0.38 km²
Residents uninhabited
Sea birds on South Brother Island

Three Brothers (also called Trois Frères ) is a small, uninhabited group of islands on the western fringing reef of the Great Chagos Bank (" Great Chagos Bank "), which has the world's most extensive atoll structure. It belongs geographically to the Chagos Archipelago and politically to the British Indian Ocean Territory .

The archipelago is about 20 kilometers east of the Eagle Islands and consists of four islands, from northwest to southeast:

  • North Brother or Île du Nord (6 ha)
  • Middle Brother or Île du Milieu (8 ha)
  • unnamed islet (1 ha)
  • South Brother or Île du Sud (23 ha)